Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Menedemus, Roger Crisp and DH Mellor / A Oliver

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7 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6853	Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology

6854	Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]